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Fine. It's a personal decision. It's clear to me that you're more maga than I am. I really don't want to be associated with maga in any way. I'm pretty sure many or most non-Americans these days are thinking about Trump when they meet an American. Well Europeans anyway. We're not the only nationality dealing with stuff like this. I've seen reports of Germans abroad being greeted with admiration of Hitler and assuming they like him too.

So you lie to them then.

What seems simple to you is not simple to me.

Yep. I don't even mind paying some tax here even though us non immigrants get nothing in return. I wonder if they would better off saying expats not working in Thailand, just pay a 30,000 baht flat tax just for breathing the air here. I would be happy to pay it if i could avoid actually having to worry about filing and tax strategies all the time.

Absolutely, and the Russian propaganda machine which is definitely the best in the world, will be helping with that without the magas even having to ask them to.

At this point I think Trump is very similar to Orban in the now no longer a real democracy Hungary. But there's always room for him to get worse.

That's good advice for sure but I prefer to keep this year a perfectly clean ZERO slate so there never can be any doubt. At my level, I'm not really worried about paying much tax here ever. I'm more worried about the mechanics of it and having to pay for greedy advisors.

Your question doesn't make any sense. Stop wasting my time. Bye.

Yes, please prosecute all the perps they can catch to the full extent of Dutch law.

Again -- maga is a cult. The American left is definitely not a cult.

This came up for me the other day and I wasn't sure how to deal with it. Now that we know that the maga autocratic cult was not a one time fluke, that maga now represents who we are as a country for better or worse (worse) when we meet non-Americans if we don't support the maga cult, and the question of nationality comes up, do we just say Americans, or do we somehow try to communicate we're not "that" maga kind of American? Of course I'm not talking about faking being Canadian, is that really fair to Canadians. I can't speak for all non-maga Americans, but I still love my national homeland and I'm not ashamed to be American. But I'm ashamed of maga. In some ways, I think all Americans have some complicity in maga happening, just as all Russians have some complicity in Putin happening. I compare this to Russians now. You meet a Russian and most people will wonder, is this a Z Putin loving Russian, an opponent, or someone completely apolitical. I look at Russians I may meet and tend to guess based on age, appearance, affect, etc. but not always right. I have an appearance that could easily be maga (or not). Thinking out loud, I guess the wisest way is to check for any reaction from new people that indicates they are wondering (are you a maga or not) and then easing into the discussion if they seem receptive. Is there another way? I can't imagine just announcing, I'm American but I hate Trump. Penny for your thoughts?

If you say so. It's not like anything I say would ever change your mind.

Sorry. It's definitely a cult. Not saying all Trump voters are in the maga cult. That gives a little bit of hope for the future.

Oh come on. Do you not know history. Hitler first came into power via an election.

Funny that you mention Stalin. I associate maga autocrats with Putin. Putin has worked very hard to rehabilitate the bad reputation of Stalin and he is now glorified again in Russia.

I'm not really taking the advice to register seriously considering the source that will directly make money if people listen. But I do have a question. I intentionally am transferring in ZERO baht into Thailand this year for the very reason that I wanted to have a buffer until the policies and enforcement (if any) are made more clear. So I have no plans of getting a tax ID to cover this year. If I am audited at a later time for this year, I can't think of anything easier than proving that I didn't transfer in even one baht. Am I wrong?

Success or failure doesn't come into it. That's a different poll. Start it flippin' yourself if you want to. Who's stopping you? Perhaps starting a poll is too complex for you. If you think he will serve the full term, there is that choice in black and white. Stop the whining. You got what you want but you still complain.

Agree to disagree. I don't have any problem with free speech. But sure I'm not going to waste my time talking to people who are in the cult. They're set in stone, but they're free to speak all they like.

Maga is. No doubt at all.

That post was in July, dude.

Sure it does. There's a heck of a lot of totally empty land in the United States. Plenty of room for double or triple the population. Let's open up legal immigration.

If you think I'm ever going to iike that disgusting criminal demagogue Trump just because he won this time, don't even bother.

Stop lying.

The vast majority of that red stuff includes empty fields and wilderness. People vote (sometimes). LAND never does.

Well Ireland is desirable. My ancestral options are basically war zones, so no thanks.